... hurt all right. I watch my mother and father rot daily- in total torture. Yes they know how to hurt. And so do I. Hoover's Catholic boys have been plugging for the 3 secrets of Fatima. Fatima 1-- War II- was rigged by Roosevelt. Fatima 2-- conversion of the entire world to Vatican rule- has long been in progress. The Mafia is the hand-maiden in this- just as it was for any Political-Religious 'Holy Crusade' since Constantine. Legal secrecy and Vatican confessionals to cover it all. Vietnam is a current example of number 2-- and the 7. So. American countries the CIA and the Vatican have ...

... A-Albionic. Now Lloyd Miller is a conspiracy theorist loud and proud. He collects conspiracy theories the way other people collect beer mats. He just loves them in all shapes and sizes. Are any of them true? Mr Miller doesn't seem to care, so long as they are interesting. A-Albionic "The Overt and Covert Organs of the Vatican and British Empires are Locked in Mortal Combat for Control of the World" A-Albionic is the 'on-going research of a private network dedicated to applying the scientific method to conspiracy theories of history.' For 'private network' I suspect we should read Mr Miller. Scientific method, eh? Watch out. 'Current issues of the [A-Albionic] ...

... 'market', messers Cornwell, Gurwin, Henze and Ms Sterling, Yallop fails to make the connection between Italian domestic politics and Italy's membership of NATO. If the Italian military/intelligence are involved in all this (and they are), then so too are the Americans. If it be true, as Yallop claims, that the Vatican funnelled more than $100,000,000 to the Polish church during the days of Solidarity; if it is true that Gelli/Calvi were funnelling money into various right-wing South American regimes (and it is said to be so although there is no good evidence that I have seen yet); then somewhere the dollar and its ...

... I am astonished by what appears to be an absence of coverage on the impact a South American pope could have on US politics. The Republicans are unlikely to welcome him: like the pope they are anti-gay and anti- abortion. However, they are also anti-immigrant: Pope Francis empathises with immigrants. Republicans they deny climate change when the Vatican does not, its priests having seen it decimate parts of Africa. In addition, Pope Francis is a respecter of all faiths, a huge challenge to US neo-cons and Israel which depends on favouritism; and in a wonderful turn of tables, gives South America the ability to meddle in US politics because of Pope Francis' ability to ...

... political thesis in the second. For Sterling, like Henze, just assumes that the Polish Pope/Solidarity episode explains Agca. Agca shot the Pope because the Soviet state was afraid of the Pope's influence in Poland. But there was another drama rumbling away parallel to the Solidarity story: the whole P2/Calvi/ Ambrosiano/Gelli/Vatican finances mess was just coming to the surface at the same time. Again, to her credit, Sterling doesn't duck this entirely. On p142, for example, she describes an investigation by an Italian judge into the guns/drugs traffic as depicting "Billions of dollars, powerful banks, men of unassailable repute, freemasons, ranking ...

... Reich which Bush Jnr. has fronted since the Republicans ran their little coup in Florida. All entirely acceptable but rather familiar and mostly unsourced. It might get him run out of town in Middle America but for readers of this journal it won't be of much interest. Sort of Greg Palast lite; Gore Vidal without the style. The Vatican Exposed: Money, Murder and the Vatican Paul L. Williams Prometheus Books, New York, 2003 h/b, $27.00 www.prometheusbooks.com A short (200 pages, large print) and sharp history of the Catholic church's greatest scandals. Wearing his philosophy PhD and MA in divinity lightly, Williams conducts the reader through the church's enrichment ...

... ( [2]) reminding us that the new Pope Benedict XVI was formerly of the Diocese of Munich (where Gehlen had his headquarters) and claiming that German security officials were not unhappy at his rise to the top of the Papacy. Gehlen's brother, Johannes Gehlen, had been in charge of Station 114 (Rome) and the Vatican/BND link never looked back from that moment. Reinhard Gehlen, a Prussian Evangelical of the old school, spent much of his retirement supporting a Protestant Church-building programme in Catholic Bavaria but, by then, the BND was in the hands of a more modern generation of security officials who saw that German security depended on a restoration of ...

... hang-outs', coupled with the impossibility of finding out what is happening inside its upper reaches, means that conspiracy theorists have free rein. However O.D. simply rebuts them by pointing out the lack of positive evidence. This problem pervades the whole book. Friedlander discusses various scandals that people have tried to associate with Opus Dei, including the Vatican/Nazi ratlines to South America, the Banco Ambrosiano/Robert Calvi case, the Swiss Guard murders and even alleged murders of recent Popes. As there is no proof of O.D. involvement and the organisation itself denies any involvement, the author simply returns his verdict of 'nothing to see here – move along'. (He may ...

... Contents| Cover Image Kincoragate Freedom and the Security Services- a Labour Party Discussion Document Smiley's People Close Ranks Against Labour Plans For Secret Services Secret Intelligence Telephone Tapping Spooks- U.K. South African Connections Spooks- U.S. Maj. Gen. Richard B. Collins, charged U.S. Foreign Policy Towards Radical Change: Covert Operations in Guatemala 1950-54 Vatican Connections God's Banker The Bulgarian Connection and the Media The Vatican Connection The Round Table The Anglo-American Establishment From Rhodes To Cliveden The Lobster is a journal/newsletter about intelligence, parapolitics, state structures and so forth. (The scope of our interests should be obvious from this first issue.) We welcome clippings, articles, letters, ...

... of commentators. Orthodox and Catholic Christians, whether the latter be Anglo or Roman. The message to 'old' Christians could not have been more straightforward. Russia positioned itself not only as a Christian nation but as a defender of Christianity. Courtesy of the Sochi opening ceremony, it made clear publicly that it was in Christian partnership with the Vatican. (So far as I could tell, there was no such statement to people of other faiths, and certainly none to Islam despite the fact Russia has large Muslim communities.) Trust Putin's Russia T his political message would not have been lost on one of the most troubled regions of the world – the Middle East. Here ...